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1 The Gentoo handbook effort
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Architectures
2 Viewing the handbook
3 Frequently asked questions
3.1 Can't you magically have the handbook dynamically created for each choice?
3.2 I can't find stage1 information in the Gentoo handbook
3.3 I disagree with ...
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1 Installing Gentoo
2 Working with Gentoo
3 Working with Portage
4 Gentoo network configuration
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1 Introduction
1.1 Preliminary
2 Advanced Installations
2.1 Software RAID
2.2 ATA RAID using 2.4 kernels
2.3 Using the Installation CD kernel
3 Simplifying the Installation
3.1 Leaving your Terminal
4 Fixing Errors/Issues
4.1 Extensive Testing of your Disks
4.2 Recovering from a malfunctioning installation
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1 Introduction
1.1 Welcome
1.2 How is the installation structured
1.3 What are the options
1.4 Troubles
2 Hardware requirements
3 Gentoo Linux installation CD
3.1 Minimal installation CD
3.2 The occasional Gentoo LiveDVD
3.3 What are stages then?
4 Downloading and burning the CD
4.1 Download the media
4.2 Verifying the downloaded files
4.2.1 Microsoft Windows based verification
4.2.2 Linux based verification
4.3 Burning
4.3.1 Burning with Microsoft Windows
4.3.2 Burning with Linux
5 Booting the CD
5.1 Booting the installation CD
5.2 Extra hardware configuration
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1 About this document
2 Booting the Install CD with Smart BootManager
3 Installation from non-Gentoo LiveCDs
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Installation instructions
4 Diskless install using PXE and kernel/initrd/squashfs from the LiveCD
5 Diskless install using PXE boot and NFS
5.1 Requirements
5.2 Server base setup
5.3 Creating the system on the server
5.4 Booting the new client
6 Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution
6.1 Requirements
6.2 Overview
6.3 How to make space for Gentoo?
6.4 Building parted to resize partition
Gentoo Linux amd64 Handbook: Working with Gentoo - Gentoo Wiki by Gentoo Wiki
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1 Welcome to Portage
2 Portage tree
2.1 Ebuilds
2.2 Updating the Portage tree
3 Maintaining software
3.1 Searching for software
3.2 Installing software
3.3 Finding installed package documentation
3.4 Removing software
3.5 Updating the system
3.6 Metapackages
4 Licenses
5 When Portage is complaining
5.1 Terminology
5.2 Blocked packages
5.3 Masked packages
5.4 Necessary USE flag changes
5.5 Missing dependencies
5.6 Ambiguous ebuild name
5.7 Circular dependencies
5.8 Fetch failed
5.9 System profile protection
5.10 Digest verification failure
6 What are USE flags
6.1 The idea behind USE flags
6.2 Definition of a USE flag
6.3 What USE flags exist
7 Using USE flags
7.1 Declare permanent USE flags
7.2 Declaring USE flags for individual packages
7.3 Declaring temporary USE flags
7.4 Precedence
7.5 Adapting the entire system to the new USE flags
8 Package specific USE flags
8.1 Viewing available USE flags
9 Satisfying REQUIRED_USE conditions
10 Portage features
11 Distributed compiling
11.1 Using distcc
11.2 Installing distcc
11.3 Activating Portage distcc support
12 Caching compilation objects
12.1 About ccache
12.2 Installing ccache
12.3 Activating Portage ccache support
12.4 Using ccache outside Portage
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1 Portage files
1.1 Configuration directives
1.2 Profile-specific information
1.3 User-specific configuration
1.4 Changing Portage file and directory locations
2 Storing files
2.1 Portage tree
2.2 Prebuilt binaries
2.3 Source code
2.4 Portage database
2.5 Portage cache
3 Building software
3.1 Temporary portage files
3.2 Building directory
3.3 Live filesystem location
4 Logging features
4.1 Ebuild logging
5 Portage configuration
6 Build-specific options
6.1 Configure and compiler options
6.2 Merge options
7 Configuration file protection
7.1 Portage protected locations
7.2 Excluding directories
8 Download options
8.1 Server locations
8.2 Fetch commands
8.3 Rsync settings
9 Gentoo configuration
9.1 Branch selection
9.2 Portage features
10 Portage behavior
10.1 Resource management
10.2 Output behavior
11 Using one branch
11.1 Stable
11.2 Testing
12 Mixing stable with testing
12.1 package.accept_keywords
12.2 Testing particular versions
13 Masked packages
13.1 package.unmask
13.2 package.mask
14 dispatch-conf
15 etc-update
16 quickpkg
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1 Getting started
2 Advanced configuration
3 Network dependencies
4 Variable names and values
5 Network interface naming
5.1 How it works
5.2 Using the old-style kernel naming
5.3 Using custom names
6 Network modules
7 Interface handlers
8 DHCP
9 ADSL with PPPoE/PPPoA
10 APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing)
11 Bonding
12 Bridging (802.1d support)
13 MAC address
14 Tunneling
15 VLAN (802.1q support)
16 Introduction
17 WPA supplicant
18 Wireless tools
18.1 Initial setup and managed mode
18.2 Fine-tune AP selection
18.3 Ad-hoc and master modes
18.4 Troubleshooting wireless tools
19 Defining network configuration per ESSID
20 Standard function hooks
21 Wireless tools function hook
22 Network management
23 ifplugd
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1 Requesting addition of new repositories (overlays)
1.1 Basic rules
1.2 Requesting adding repository hosted elsewhere (the new way)
1.3 Requesting adding repository hosted elsewhere (the old way)
1.4 Requesting hosting for a repository
1.5 Requesting automatically mirroring git.g.o repo on GitHub / any external hosting
2 Debugging common issues
2.1 Testing access to git.gentoo.org repositories
2.2 Debugging SSH key issues
3 Reporting bugs on repositories
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1 Documentation
2 Resources
3 Herds
4 Participation
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1 Introduction
2 Installation
2.1 What's the difference between AMD64 and EM64T?
2.2 What CFLAGS should I use?
2.3 What kernel should I use?
2.4 Will I have a performance upgrade if I use a 64-bit system instead of 32-bit?
2.5 What is multilib and how can I use it?
2.6 How do I create a 32-bit chroot?
2.7 Can I upgrade from my x86 system to AMD64 by doing emerge -e @world?
2.8 Can I use Reiser4?
3 Hardware
3.1 Will my binary NVIDIA/ATI drivers work?
3.2 How do I use Cool'n'Quiet/PowerNow/SpeedStep features?
4 Applications
4.1 Can I get Adobe Flash working?
4.2 I want to install package foo, but emerge says: (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
4.3 I want to install package foo, but emerge says: (masked by: missing keyword)
5 How can I help the Gentoo/AMD64 project?
5.1 How can I help?
6 Other Resources
6.1 Where can I get more help or information about Gentoo/AMD64?
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1 Introduction
2 Getting started
2.1 How is Gentoo pronounced, and what does it mean?
2.2 What makes Gentoo different?
3 Installation
3.1 Things are really unstable when using -O9 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer optimizations. What g
3.2 How do I change the root (or any other user's) password?
3.3 How do I add a normal user?
3.4 Why can't a user su to root?
3.5 Can I upgrade Gentoo from one release to another without reinstalling?
3.6 My kernel does not boot, what should I do now?
3.7 My proxy requires authentication, what do I have to do?
3.8 How do I burn an ISO file?
3.9 What CD/stage should I use for my CPU?
3.10 The Internet does not work after rebooting. What is wrong?
3.11 Attempting to boot Windows from GRUB or LILO only shows a black screen. What should I do?
3.12 How do I install Gentoo using a stage1 or stage2 tarball?
4 Package management
4.1 In what form are the packages stored?
4.2 I want to perform the ./configure step myself. Can I?
4.3 What if rsync does not work for me?
4.4 I have a slow (or no) Internet connection at home. Can I download sources somewhere else and add
4.5 Source tarballs are collecting in /usr/portage/distfiles/. Is it safe to delete these files?
4.6 What is in /var/tmp/portage? Is it safe to delete the files and directories in /var/tmp/portage?
5 Usage
5.1 How do I set up an International Keyboard Layout?
5.2 DNS name resolution works for root only
5.3 Why can't my user use their own crontab?
5.4 How do I get numlock to start on boot?
5.5 How do I have my terminal cleared when I log out?
6 Maintenance
6.1 ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues - how to fix them, etc
7 Development
7.1 Where can I report bugs?
7.2 How often are new releases made?
7.3 My speaker beeps like crazy. How do I disable console beeps?
8 Resources
8.1 Where can I find more information about Gentoo Linux?
8.2 Can I buy a CD of Gentoo Linux?
8.3 This FAQ has not answered my question. What do I do now?
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